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"Obviously"

Perhaps he heard the hysteria creeping into my voice, because he stepped closer and placed a hand on each ofme a supportive squeeze The look in his eyes wasn’t as patient, though, and plainly said, Pull yourself together, woman

"Think about what Calliope has told you a thousand tih her gate It’s obviously not i Desmond across But think about what she said the reason was"

"I don’t remember," I replied

"Bullshit, you don’t remember" This tiht painful "Remember what she said"

I did renorance to a rule when you’re the only known exception to it "Shifters aren’t allowed because time doesn’t function the same way The moon can be full even when it seeerous?"

"Because a shifter who changes when they aren’t prepared can’t be controlled"

"Right They aren’t responsible for their actions," he said, quoting Calliope directly When she’d said it to me in the past, it hadn’t sounded like a free pass for bad wolf behavior, but if she was right, itlike a lunatic He hadn’t wanted to change, but the pull of the moon here was too e of our own full moon back home

So when he’d changed, whatever governed his self-control , and apparently Desreat with my bitch This proved ere soulthe co a asn’t just the ability to shift fro the assets of a predator while continuing to live a normal life What it meant was each of us--all shapeshifters everywhere--had to exist like high-functioning multiple-personality-disorder victi inside us, and we spent every single day working to ht, Deset it back again while ere here

Another loud thuainst the door told me not to be optimistic, but the part of me that knew Desmond inside and out wanted to believe better I wanted to bet against the house and see hih on his own I wanted to fall asleep at dawn and wake up at dusk to a human Desmond

I wanted him to not remember any of this

Blood seeped fro his whole shirtsleeve red The way the liquid glistened against the material made it look more like oil than a vital bodily fluid It wasn’t until I thought of it in ter a part of Holden that I was struck by what I was seeing And san to slink away, I was left with the invasive coppery fragrance of blood It didn’t matter that it was vampire blood, or that I’d eaten before I came The moment the odor reached my nostrils I felt dizzy

"I need to sit down," I whispered

"Are you all right?" Holden guided ently forcing e I didn’t resist, and restedto go away

Maybe if I closedwould be a really weird dream Kellen would be at home, Des hi the hell out of my life

Then it struck me This All of this Was Lucas’s fault

Sure, in ainto debt with the fae, but it ay more fun to say it was Lucas’s fault He’d ot ho tokne much I appreciated the errand he’d sent me on

For starters, I would take each of his testicles and--